Struggle in Soviet Russia

The Kremlin, a small white office building dedicated to Comrade Stalin.

Valenka parked the car under the steps in front of the building, got out of the car first, opened the door for Victor, and after he got out of the car, handed him the black-covered folder, and then returned. Get in the car and drive to the parking lot not far away.

At this time, the night sky was flying finely divided snowflakes. It is said that there was a cold current invading from the Arctic Circle in the last two days, which will cause harassment to most areas including Moscow. The Moscow City Committee and Government have issued a response. The mobilization order for the snow disaster.

Today, this cold current has not yet arrived. What is really coming is only the first cold air, but even so, after nightfall, the temperature in Moscow has dropped to about minus six or seven degrees, which seems to indicate that this year will be another cold winter.

The interesting thing is that for three consecutive years since the outbreak of the war, the Union’s winters have been surprisingly cold, with heavy winds, heavy snow, and low temperatures. Climate factors have brought a lot of trouble to both sides of the war.

When he came out of the villa, Victor changed into this year's new coat. At this time, he tightened the collar of his coat, subconsciously raised his head, glanced at the starless sky, and then took a step forward. Walk towards the entrance of the small building.

As usual, Victor did not go upstairs directly, but went to the secretariat on the first floor. However, this time he was not lucky and did not find Comrade Poskrebeshev. However, when he went up to the second floor, it happened. Encountered the big secret comrade from Comrade Stalin's office.

"You came just right, Comrade Serbakov just went in," Boskrebeshev greeted Victor with a smile, and said, "I still want to call you to rush you."

"Is Comrade Xia Denko here too?" Victor asked. He had already come to the structure, half an hour earlier, but he didn't expect that he was not the first to come.

"I'll be here soon," Poskrebeshev turned around, led him to Comrade Stalin's office, and said at the same time, "Comrade Stalin also just woke up, probably because his blood pressure is a little high, and the doctor is examining him."

The health of the leader is naturally very important. Let alone Comrade Stalin, even Victor has a comprehensive check-up once a week. He now has his own doctors, and these doctors are watching him all day. Eat and rest, and urge him to go for checkups regularly.

Following Poskrebshev, Victor entered Comrade Stalin's office. As I said before, Comrade Stalin is undergoing an examination, and four or five doctors surround him and are very busy.

"Victor is here, sit down," Comrade Stalin was obviously in a good mood, and when he saw Victor coming in from the door, he raised his chin toward the sofa and said.

Victor gave him a military salute before he took off his cap and walked to the sofa in the middle of the room.

At this time, on a long three-person sofa in the center of the room, there is already a person sitting on the sofa. This person is a bit fatter. Sitting on that sofa, one person occupies two people's space. Moreover, he is fat. Her big face is oily, as if in a sauna, with sweat on her forehead.

Seeing Victor walking to the opposite side, the big fat man squeezed a smile at Victor while wiping his sweat with his handkerchief, and said, "Good evening, Comrade Victor."

"Good evening, Comrade Alexander," Victor greeted each other with a smile, and then sat down on the sofa, placing his military cap and papers on the coffee table in front of him.

"Victor, what bad news did you bring to me?" Comrade Stalin was taking his blood pressure. He apparently saw the document that Victor had brought, and asked in a joking tone.

"It's really not good news," Victor smiled shyly, then reached out and picked up the document, and said, "It's a message from our intelligence personnel from New York."

Comrade Stalin nodded, then he sat up straight from the chair and winked at the doctors around him.

The doctors understood what he meant, and immediately packed the equipment and placed it here temporarily, while a group of people hurriedly left the office.

"What's the bad news?" Comrade Stalin stood up until the doctors had all gone out. He took his pipe and put the tobacco in it while walking to a sofa next to Victor and asked.

"It's about some negative news about the Jewish Committee," Victor opened the document, held it in both hands, and brought it to Comrade Stalin, while explaining the relevant information to him.

"These guys are really getting too much," Sherbakov said first after hearing his explanation. "As far as I know, Mihoels was very upset when he was leading the Jewish theater in the past. Now, he is clearly building the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee into a leading center for Jewish nationalist underground activities."

After a pause, he added: "I also heard that members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, including Mihoels, Feffer, etc., have close contacts with Magidov. We have reason. I wonder if they are selling the key intelligence of the alliance to the Americans."

Magidov is a reporter stationed by the United States in the Alliance, but at this time, the American intelligence organization is completely scumbag compared with the intelligence agency of the National Security People’s Committee. The identity of Magidov’s intelligence agent He was caught by the Counterintelligence Bureau a long time ago. The NKVD did not move him because the Soviet Union and the United States are now an alliance after all, and Magidov has not obtained any decent intelligence.

Comrade Stalin looked at the document in his hand and remained silent. After a long time, he closed the document until Boskrebeshev entered the door again and brought in Xia Denko, and said, "I will talk about this later. , Now is not the time to deal with them."

"Comrade Stalin," Xia Denko also walked over at this time, and he saluted Comrade Stalin.

"Sit down," Comrade Stalin waved to him and motioned him to sit down on the opposite sofa. Then he picked up the two documents originally on the table and gave them to Shadenko and Serbakov. One serving per person.

Of the four people present here, only Xia Denko and Serbakov received a document. Comrade Stalin and Victor did not have one. Then it means that Victor must know the contents of the document, not that Comrade Stalin deliberately ignored it. he.

Xia Denko is an old revolutionary, and Serbakov is also a personal spirit. They knew that Victor should have known the content of this meeting in advance. What's more, the topic of tonight is very good. It may be that Comrade Stalin had discussed with Victor before letting the two of them join.

In other words, Comrade Stalin valued Victor's opinions more on the content discussed at the meeting tonight.

With this idea in their minds, Xia Denko and Serbakov knew what to do-what issues Comrade Stalin wanted to discuss with them, it is impossible to give no hints at all, whether they are for or against, whether they are positive or negative. , All need to have a prior decision. And this time the meeting notice was very urgent, and there was no hint at all, so in the following discussion, they only need to look at Victor's opinion to know how to change their choice.

The document issued by Comrade Stalin was very thick, and it looked like six to seventy pages. Xia Denko and Serbakov spread the document on their knees, looking through it with serious expressions.

This document is officially Victor’s previous report, which is a proposal on the implementation of the "Party Committee" system in the army, but Comrade Stalin has rearranged the original report and deleted some content about the "dual chiefs system." , Added part of the Kalmyk question.

To be more specific, this document started from the Kalmyk rebellion and proposed to clean up the dangerous Kalmyk in the Red Army. At the same time, it was led by the Army Security Bureau under the People’s Committee of National Security. The General Political Department and the Chief Editor-in-Chief Training Department cooperated to try to implement the grassroots party committee system in the newly built and reorganized army.

Of course, it is impossible for Comrade Stalin to meet with Victor, Shadenko, and Serbakov to decide to implement a problem like this. This meeting tonight is actually a briefing. Comrade Stalin will call him a briefing. Put forward his idea, and then ask the opinions of the remaining three people.

If the three have no opinion, then this bill will be put forward in a meeting of the Supreme Command, and the final decision will be made by the highest command body during the war.

Shatenko and Serbakov attach great importance to the documents in front of them. Of course, for them, the Kalmyks problem is not a problem at all, whether it is the removal of Kalmyks from the Red Army system or the abolition of Kalmyks. They will not have any opinions on the autonomous status of the Republic of Croatia.

The key point is that the issue of implementing a grassroots party committee system in the military is very new. No one has raised it before, let alone implemented it. Therefore, they need to understand it thoroughly before they can form a concept in their minds.

As leaders with rich political experience, Shadenko and Serbakov quickly understood the role of this party committee system after reviewing the documents. There is no doubt that this system is aimed at the actual control of the military. To go.

Once this system is implemented, it will play an important role in ensuring the absolute leadership of the Bolshevik Party over the army. The party system will take root in the army and grow rapidly.

This system is more effective and stronger than the less restrictive political committee system implemented by the coalition in the past.

In the final analysis, both Shadenko and Serbakov are senior Bolshevik party members. At the same time, they are not vested interests in the military system. Therefore, the implementation of this system is beneficial and harmless to them. Yes, they have no reason to object.